Editor’s note: Part 2 of “Intro to Embedded Systems” follows Part 1’s look at the general nature of embedded systems with another excerpt from the book “MSP430 Microcontroller Basics,” delving deeper ...

The Difference Between an Embedded Processor & a Microcontroller. As computer systems become more and more ubiquitous in everyday items, the workings of those items will require some sort of ...

IAR Systems remains committed to supplying world-class tools for embedded developers across the entire bit range: 8-, 16-, and 32-bits alike. This commitment ensures low memory footprint and high code ...

Designers may specify any configuration of the industry-standard IP cores, including Actel's new Core8051 8-bit microcontroller (MCU) and a range of peripherals, and within one day receive the ...

Digi-Key has created towergeeks.org, an online community addressing Freescale's Tower System. The Tower System – a modular, reconfigurable development platform for 8, 16 and 32bit microcontrollers – ...

IAR Systems has partnered up with the semiconductor IP provider CAST Inc. to offer new possibilities for developers working with 8051-based applications. With the recently introduced version 9.10 IAR ...

The USS2828 system-on-a-chip (SoC) controller combines a USB 2.0 interface and a 32-bit embedded processor to triple the data-processing throughput of similar controllers based on 8-bit 8051 ...